Ross Mirkarimi met with mayoral silence

Recently returned San Francisco Sheriff RossMirkarimi tried extending an olive branch to the mayor who suspended him – and was met with stony silence.

In a letter Monday to Mayor Ed Lee, Mirkarimi asked, “in the spirit of reconciliation,” for a meeting “to listen carefully about any issues concerning the department” and to help him mend relations with the anti-domestic violence community, “a cause we both care very deeply about.”

In other words, let’s move on.

Lee, however, appears to have little interest in helping Mirkarimi mend fences in the wake of the sheriff’s guilty plea to falsely imprisoning his wife during a New Year’s Eve argument. He hasn’t responded to Mirkarimi’s letter.

“The mayor does not want to comment on the letter, but the mayor did stress that he is not moving on,” said spokeswoman Christine Falvey.

Instead, Lee is meeting with anti-domestic-violence advocates – on his own.

New team: The recent Super Bowl bid announcement was very much a changing of the guard for San Francisco.

For starters, the main players – 49ers CEO Jed York and Daniel Lurie, CEO of Tipping Point Community – represent the new movers and shakers of the city.

It will be up to Lurie to help raise $25 million in private money to get the city ready for the event.

“When an opportunity is presented by the mayor to bring one of the world’s biggest sporting events, you can’t say no,” Lurie said. “If this was just a big business, big corporate thing, I wouldn’t do this. It’s for the whole community.”

Then there was the recognition that the Bay Area isn’t just about San Francisco anymore. And in a bow to the tech boom, one of the icons for the Super Bowl campaign is a Twitter hashtag on a football.

By the way, York tells us that seat and suite sales at the Niners’ new Santa Clara stadium have gone over the $630 million mark.

So, from the looks of things, they aren’t going to need the Raiders as joint tenants.

Tag team: Leave it to Berkeley to put a new twist on ranked-choice voting. Three of the candidates running against Mayor Tom Bates are being so nice to each other, they’re even sharing headquarters space in an old karate studio on University Avenue.

“The idea was a one-stop shop,” said Jacquelyn McCormick, who moved in along with mayoral hopefuls Councilman Kriss Worthington and Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi.

They’re all are hoping to knock off Bates in the Nov. 6 election.

It’s a pretty cozy place on University. A council candidate and campaign operations for two ballot measures are also there.

“We each got a roll of tape,” Worthington said, “and divided up the space.”

Supreme choice: Business must be good for small-businessman Michael Breyer (as in the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer) – he just wrote himself a $250,000 check for his state Assembly race in San Francisco.

Breyer, who operates a courtroom video service for law schools and legal firms, is running a tough race against city Assessor Phil Tingfor the seat now held by termed-out Fiona Ma.

The latest drop brings Breyer’s self-contribution total to $360,590.

“If I’m asking other people to contribute, then I think I should contribute myself,” Breyer said.

Culture shock: Recently retired San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey got quite a shock the other day when he ventured from his new digs in Red Bluff a few miles up Interstate 5 to Redding.

“I had to feed the meter in the downtown – 75 minutes for 25 cents,” Hennessey reports. “I had to put on my glasses to read the small print inside the meter window see if that was correct. It was.”

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